blue-stocking
Example Sentences
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"Behold me literally in love with this great horse-faced blue-stocking," Henry James wrote to his father.
From Time Magazine Archive
She wanted to be broad-minded if she could, for she was rather a blue-stocking.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
There was never lipstick to contrast with her straight black hair, while at the age of thirty-one her dresses showed all the imagination of English blue-stocking adolescents.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
"I'm afraid she would have to be what you would call a blue-stocking," she said.
From The Eldest Son by Archibald Marshall
She passed for a blue-stocking because she read serious books, and for 'highfalutin' because she speculated upon matters quite uninteresting to young girls in general.
From Countess Erika's Apprenticeship by Ossip Schubin
